The focus of their attacks is likely to ebb and flow between local regime targets and regional or global ones.

NPR: Both Parties Find Ammo in Threat Summary

The regime, sustained by a flow of food and ammunition from the Soviet Union, held firm.

NEWYORKER: After America

Not least, we must use political warfare, information technologies and covert operations inside Iran, together with a comprehensive effort to cut off the Tehran regime's cash-flow.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Surge protector

That helped legitimize Kim Jong Il as a ruler brokering big international deals with the U.S. and its allies, and got him a flow of aid that helped sustain his regime while he consolidated power.

FORBES: Freedom's Edge

When I put it to her that the creation of a harsh regime for asylum seekers had not stopped the flow, she answered, "this is why things are changing".

BBC: Greece asylum: Journey through a broken system

Tightening controls on the flow of cash to the North may make it more difficult for the regime to protect its assets, but the North's leadership has become more agile in eluding financial restrictions since 2005 when the US treasury successfully closed down access to some of the bank accounts of senior North Korean officials.

BBC: North Korea: Will new UN sanctions persuade or provoke?

America, Japan and China all have an interest in avoiding another crisis in the region, whether triggered by a sudden increase in the flow of North Korean refugees or by another rocket-propelled raspberry from its unpredictable regime.

ECONOMIST: Mr Kim, meet Mr Kim

Because of the actions of the Iranian regime, an electronic curtain has fallen around Iran - a barrier that stops the free flow of information and ideas into the country, and denies the rest of the world the benefit of interacting with the Iranian people, who have so much to offer.

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